No farking shiat!!!Have you seen the royal family???You don't get ears that big and teeth that long unless you cross an elephant with a badger!Seriously, money that could help the poor become educated was put towards the biggest derp study in history. Farking morons!

I think humanity is in for a huge leap forward soon, just because we are able to mix our genes globally. It wasn't until air travel that it was really possible for some Spanish playa to vacation in Indonesia, dump a few gallons of DNA in the local lasses, and then jet home a week later. If the best genes from both parents tend to win out, intermixing can only strengthen the herd.

"The most common problem that mothers over 40 have during pregnancy is the possibility of chromosomal malformations such as downs syndrome. A mother who is in her twenties has a one in 1,500 chance of having a baby with a condition such as downs syndrome. However, in a mother who is over 40 years of age this risk is higher. The potential of a mother over 40 having a baby is raised to one out of every 50, which is a high number considering just 10 or 20 years earlier, the risk was rather low."

In other news, having children past age 40 also increases the odds significantly of abnormalities and syndromes, but I would never make law that mothers over age 40 shouldn't be allowed to have children.

With regards to marrying cousins, the heart wants what the heart wants I always say.

Aside from the ignorant remarks already provided and this study, the problem is not cousin marriages per se. The occasional cousin (first or any) marriage is not a genetic problem. And if there is no defect to pass on, twice zero is zero. So much for the headline. It is the constant generation after generation of close marriages that magnify any genetic anomaly. The study population seems to be one of many generations of close relative marriage. In other words, they have reproduced much like the royalty of Europe, i.e. closed communities. Hapsburg chin anyone? Porphyria perhaps? So shove your Southern jokes where the sun don't shine.

len470:Aside from the ignorant remarks already provided and this study, the problem is not cousin marriages per se. The occasional cousin (first or any) marriage is not a genetic problem. And if there is no defect to pass on, twice zero is zero. So much for the headline. It is the constant generation after generation of close marriages that magnify any genetic anomaly. The study population seems to be one of many generations of close relative marriage. In other words, they have reproduced much like the royalty of Europe, i.e. closed communities. Hapsburg chin anyone? Porphyria perhaps? So shove your Southern jokes where the sun don't shine.

And how many people are completely and totally devoid of genes with a defect?

GGracie:No farking shiat!!!Have you seen the royal family???You don't get ears that big and teeth that long unless you cross an elephant with a badger!Seriously, money that could help the poor become educated was put towards the biggest derp study in history. Farking morons!